Simetrical hett schreven:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
On the page move form, a checkbox is shown, checked by default, labelled "update any redirects which point to the original title".
Is the typical user going to understand what this means and be able to make an intelligent decision about whether to use it? Is there any good reason this shouldn't always be done, with no option to skip it?
For some pages on some projects it is common to archive the page by moving "page X" to "page X/Archive" and recreate "page X" from the resulting redirect. But pre-existing redirects on "page X" should still point to "page X" after the move. Therefore it is indeed useful to have it optionally.
Also, what's the maximum number of redirects we're expecting here, and how long does each one take to fix? It would be nice if this could be done synchronously rather than on the job queue, so you wouldn't have to wait for possibly days for everything to be updated.
It's clearly an extreme and dubious example, but the highest number of redirects I ever came upon was on ksh.wikipedia. The article http://ksh.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6lle%2C_Rejierungsbezirk for example has 16619 redirects. On wikis with bigger communities who can take corrective actions against single dominant users the numbers most likely will be much lower ;-) I think there are few realistic cases where numbers of more than perhaps 20 redirects are really needed.
Marcus Buck Slomox